If financial stress has hampered your holiday joy in the past, make a commitment to try a different approach this year.

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House Speaker Newt Gingrich led Congress to try a different approach, the one tried and true way to balance the budget, which has worked every time it has been tried.

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Second, newer approaches to CAPTCHA have been developed that try a different approach to a Turing test by asking users to perform operations through input devices, like a keyboard or mouse.

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Washington might well try a different approach.

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It acknowledges that you don't always win, that when things don't turn out well, you try a different approach and then another until you find a solution, until you reach a new continent, until you write the right constitution, until you invent the right machine.

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FitzGerald favors a totally different approach, using small studies to try and understand how the drugs favor in individual patients.

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"And McChrystal's request, that we need to actually protect the Afghanis in this situation as opposed to just go after and try to kill bad guys on the other team, is a very different approach than Vietnam and I don't think has received enough attention, " Clemons said.

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The book's messages are common sense--try "seeing things from a different perspective, " be more "original in your approach to leadership"--but the hope is that drawing comparisons to a stand-up comedian can help leaders approach their work more creatively and, of course, with some humor.

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